A new riddle book, or, A whetstone for dull wits

by: Drewry, John,d. 1794

Publication date: 1790

Topics: Riddles, Juvenile, Chapbooks -- Specimens., Chapbooks -- England -- Derby -- 18th century, McGill University Library Digitized Title, McGill Library's Chapbook Collection, Chapbooks

Publisher: Derby : Printed at Derby for the benefit of the travelling stationers

Collection: mcgilluniversitychapbook; mcgilluniversity; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: English

24 p. : ill. ; 15 x 9 cm.

A chapbook of riddles in verse, comical questions, and merry tales, probably printed by J. Drewry

Woodcut illustrations

Osborne catalogue

Opie

First sentence: "Into this World I came hanging, And when from same I was ganging, I was bitterly batter'd and squeez'd, And then with my Blood they are pleas'd."

Includes 24 woodcuts

Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: numerous wood-cuts in text. Card covers. Wood-cuts on front & back covers. Hobbyhorse Books. Ho Ho Kus, N.J. Oct/2001. $1000.00

Addeddate: 2014-02-14 20:10:51

Identifier: McGillLibrary-PN970_T73_N49_1790-2039

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t6rz1ts11

Note: A chapbook of riddles in verse, comical questions, and merry tales, probably printed by J. Drewry.
Woodcut illustrations.
Osborne catalogue, I:223-4
Opie, K 56
First sentence: "Into this World I came hanging, And when from same I was ganging, I was bitterly batter'd and squeez'd, And then with my Blood they are pleas'd."
Includes 24 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: numerous wood-cuts in text. Card covers. Wood-cuts on front & back covers. Hobbyhorse Books. Ho Ho Kus, N.J. Oct/2001. $1000.00.